Leaves of Healing – Volume 33 – Page 33 – 1913
Where else do we find Moses using the rod? When he went before Pharaoh he cast it down, as God had told him to do, and it became a serpent. And Pharaoh called in the magicians and they cast down their rods and each became a serpent, and the serpent from Moses’ rod swallowed up all the other serpents.
And then you find Moses stretching the rod over the waters, and they turned to blood; and the magicians did the same.
Then Moses lifted up his rod and smote the dust of the ground, and it became lice; and when the magicians tried to do the same, they failed.
Cannot you see the Hand of God? How wonderful God worked out His purposes there!
Some people wonder how it was that the magicians performed the miracles. God permitted it to show His greater power, and at last He brought them absolutely to naught; and old Pharaoh, disheartened, was compelled to say-in his heart if he never said it aloud, “I am defeated! The God of Israel is Greater than all the magicians! And now I can hope for nothing from the astrologers, or the magicians, or the wise men of Egypt !”
On one occasion God said to Moses, “Lift up thy rod!” And when he did so the waters of the Red Sea parted.
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